Herwarth Walden, Curator of the New Art. Life and Fate

Herwart Walden (1878–1941) was a German gallerist and the founder of the international art movement Der Sturm, who lived in Moscow in the 1930s. This first biography by a Russian author explores Walden’s practice in the light of contemporary ideas about curating. It includes polemical articles and essays by Walden in defense of the new art, translated into Russian for the first time, and features as illustrations reproductions of artworks from Der Sturm magazine, which was published by Walden.

Zinaida Bonami (b. 1953, Moscow) is a museum expert and has curated numerous art and literary exhibitions. From 2001 to 2015, she was Deputy Director of the Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts. Her research focuses on cultural and museum studies. She is the author of the books How to Read and Understand a Museum. The Philosophy of the Museum (2018) and How to Read and Understand an Exhibition. The Anatomy of the Exhibition (2021) and co-author of the monograph The Politics of Affect. The Museum as a Space of Public History (2019). She lives and works in Moscow.